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单词 weather-stain
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weather-stainn.

Brit. /ˈwɛðəsteɪn/, U.S. /ˈwɛðərˌsteɪn/
A stain or discoloration caused by the weather. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > stained condition > stain > by weather
weather-stain1815
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 47 The grey old towers..bearing the rusty weather-stains of ages.
1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt I. vii. 100 Though I have endeavoured to leave them as much mould, mildew, and weather-stain as possible.
1847 R. W. Emerson Butler in Poems 43 Give me wine to wash me clean Of the weather-stains of cares.
1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 21 June in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) v. 329 A marble statue, grey with ancient weather-stains.

Derivatives

ˈweather-stained adj.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > by weather
weather-stained1849
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 57 Town records, old, tattered, time-worn, weather-stained chronicles.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvi. 76 She was a ship of the old school,..Long-seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and calms of all four oceans.
1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 16 The lowly dwelling..with its weather-stained walls.
ˈweather-staining n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > stained condition > staining > by weather
weather-staining1884
1884 Daily News 4 Sept. 3/1 The only detriment time has wrought in the monument is the weather-staining of the marble statues.
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